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Jewish Liturgical Reasoning

by Steven Kepnes (finard Chair In Jewish Studies, Professor In The Department Of Philosophy And Religion, And Director Of Jewish Studies, Finard Chair In Jewish Studies, Professor In The Department Of Philosophy And Religion, And Director Of Jewish Studies,

  • Hardback
  • 248 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.7 cm

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Liturgy, a complex interweaving of word, text, song, and behavior is a central fixture of religious life in the Jewish tradition. It is unique in that it is performed and not merely thought. Because liturgy is performed by a specific group at a specific time and place it is mutable. Thus, liturgical reasoning is always new and understandings of liturgical practices are always evolving. Liturgy is neither preexisting nor static; it is discovered and revealed in every liturgical performance. Jewish Liturgical Reasoning is an attempt to articulate the internal patterns of philosophical, ethical, and theological reasoning that are at work in synagogue liturgies. This book discusses the relationship between internal Jewish liturgical reasoning and the variety of external philosophical and theological forms of reasoning that have been developed in modern and post liberal Jewish philosophy. Steven Kepnes argues that liturgical reasoning can reorient Jewish philosophy and provide it with new tools, new terms of discourse and analysis, and a new sensibility for the twenty-first century.The formal philosophical study of Jewish liturgy began with Moses Mendelssohn and the modern Jewish philosophers. Thus the book focuses, in its first chapters, on the liturgical reasoning of Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, and Franz Rosenzweig. However, it attempts to augment and further develop the liturgical reasoning of these figures with methods of study from Hermeneutics, Semiotic theory, post liberal theology, anthropology and performance theory. These newer theories are enlisted to help form a contemporary liturgical reasoning that can respond to such events as the Holocaust, the establishment of the State of Israel, and interfaith dialogue between Jews, Christians, and Muslims.
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  • Author

    Steven Kepnes (finard Chair In Jewish Studies, Professor In The Department Of Philosophy And Religion, And Director Of Jewish Studies, Finard Chair In Jewish Studies, Professor In The Department Of Philosophy And Religion, And Director Of Jewish Studies,

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    November 2007

  • Weight

    527g

  • Page Count

    248

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780195313819

  • ISBN-10

    019531381X

  • Eden Code

    1225489

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